For researchers who work with text
TAPoR catalogues concordancers, annotators, topic models, stylometry packages, and visualization environments. Every record notes the platform, the license, and what the tool is actually good for.
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Praat is free software for the phonetic analysis of speech, including support for articulatory and speech synthesis. The most current release is version 6.2.05 . It is now available on a variety of operating systems including Window, Macintosh, Raspberry Pi, Chromebook, Linux. Praat now includes many additional functionalities among which are: - Statistical analysis - Listening experiments - Speech manipulations - Learning algorithms.
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Praat is a free software package for phonetic analysis. Some of the functionalities include spectral analysis (spectrograms) pitch analysis, formant analysis, intensity analysis, jitter, shimmer, voice breaks cochleagram, excitation pattern, speech manipulation, etc
Visualization
Prefuse is a Java framework for creating interactive information visualization applications from the University of California at Berkeley's Visualization Lab. It can be used to design standalone applications, visual components within other applications and web applets.
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A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with macros, to facilitate the visualization and analysis of Mallet topics. This spreadsheet accepts data from a topic model produced by Mallet. This sheet currently contains six macros that can be run by clicking the appropriate buttons.
Visualization
Prism is a visualization tool that represents texts based on crowdsourced interpretations. Users are encouraged to highlight words in a text according to categories ("facets"). Users' individual interpretations contribute to a visualization combining the interpretations of all users of the text. As such, it reveals patterns in subjective readings of a text.
Visualization
Processing is a free, open source programming language and development library for the visual arts. It is a software sketchbook, a way to visually learn programming fundamentals, and a tool for creating finished professional work, including mapping networks, textual analysis and producing visualizations. It runs under Windows, OSX and Linux environments, and can export graphics and applets in a variety of formats.
Week of 1 Nov – 7 Nov
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Geoffrey Rockwell
Not all Voyant tools show up in the default view or skin. Here is a list of some of the other tools worth trying.
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Holly Pickering
Interested in audio production and editing? Here are a few programs that can help you get on your way. Some of them are free, some not, but all are helpful and useful.
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Jason Bradshaw
This list compiles a suite of tools that make up Kynan Ly's Text Analysis for Twitter Research (TATR) Library. Recipes to these notebooks can be found on methodi.ca
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